Fourth Ivy League Pitcher of the Week Award for Ricciardone

Apr 15, 2014

Laura Ricciardone leads all Harvard pitchers with 11 wins on
the season (Gil Talbot).

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the sixth time in her career
and fourth time this season, junior pitcher Laura Ricciardone has
been named Ivy League Pitcher of the Week, the league announced
Tuesday. It is also her second consecutive week earning the award,
and she shares the weekly honor with Dartmouth’s Kristen
Rumley.

Ricciardone becomes just the third pitcher in team history to
earn at least four Ivy weekly honors in one season, joining Shelly
Maddick ’08 in 2007 and Rachel Brown ’12 in 2012.

The wins once again piled up for the junior hurler, as she
amassed two “W’s” in three appearances last week.
Ricciardone allowed just two hits and no runs in three innings of
work in a 5-1 win over Rhode Island, and picked up a complete-game
victory Saturday against Brown, surrendering one earned run and
four hits in the contest. She went four innings in Game 1 against
the Bears Sunday, and did not allow a run to cross the plate while
giving up just two hits. For the week, she totaled a miniscule 0.50
earned-run average and held opposing batters to a .160 batting
average against her. She also did damage with her bat, collecting
four hits in four games played, including a two-run homer in the
win over the Rams.

Harvard is slated to return to action Thursday in a single game
against Maine, before heading to New Haven, Conn., to take on Yale
in a four-game Ivy North Division series.